Welcome!

I obtained my MPhil. Degree in Urban Governance and Design from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) in March 2025. I was an exchange student at the Division of Social Science, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Clear Water Bay), from Jan 2024 to Aug 2024. Before obtaining my master's degree, I worked as a research assistant at Peking University and Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech).

I am interested in social stratification and inequality across later life, life course and time-use research, and broader topics in quantitative social sciences (sociology and demography). My current research examines how information and communication technology (ICT) shapes the elderly's mental health, social networks, and time use behaviors. Apart from my primary research agenda on health and digital inequalities, I am also interested in understanding the mechanisms of how social intervention can improve children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills in very low-income and less-developed areas. Methodologically, I adopt a multi-method approach, including design-based causal inferences, social sequence analysis, computational methods (text-as-data and Large Language Models, LLM), and field experiments.

I am open-minded and happy to collaborate with different researchers. You can reach me via email: liuyongye16 [at] gmail [dot] com.